{"id":30528,"date":"2018-03-20T12:40:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T12:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2018\/03\/20\/army-to-demonstrate-precision-strike-hypersonics-and-ramjet-capabilities-in-just-a-few-years\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:32:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:32:30","slug":"army-to-demonstrate-precision-strike-hypersonics-and-ramjet-capabilities-in-just-a-few-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/digital-show-dailies\/global-force-symposium\/2018\/03\/20\/army-to-demonstrate-precision-strike-hypersonics-and-ramjet-capabilities-in-just-a-few-years\/","title":{"rendered":"US Army to demo precision strike, hypersonics, ramjet capabilities in just a few years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Army will demonstrate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/ausa\/2016\/10\/04\/multi-domain-battle-drives-army-toward-new-missile\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Long-Range Precision Fires<\/a> technology from a precision-strike missile to hypersonics and ramjet capabilities within the next couple of years, according to the service\u2019s LRPF modernization team lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The LRPF <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2017\/11\/06\/armys-modernization-command-taking-shape-under-freshly-picked-leaders\/\" title=\"\" class=\"selected-link\" target=\"_blank\">cross-functional team<\/a> \u2014 or CFT \u2014 was recently tasked to come up with ways to bring LRPF capability online as fast as possible. LRPF has been identified as the Army\u2019s top modernization priority among six. Each priority was assigned a CFT to tackle modernization plans going forward and will be housed within the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2018\/01\/05\/new-army-secretary-committed-to-designing-fresh-future-readiness-blueprint\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Army\u2019s new Futures Command<\/a> expected to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/ausa\/2017\/10\/09\/the-army-is-creating-a-new-modernization-command-to-keep-projects-on-track\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">open its doors this summer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[<i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/ausa\/2017\/10\/11\/modernization-reborn-army-pushes-for-total-overmatch\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Modernization reborn: Army pushes for total overmatch<\/a><\/i>]<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere is a real need to modernize our surface-to-surface fires at echelon to be able to guarantee a clear overmatch against any potential adversary both on the modern and future battlefield,\u201d Brig. Gen. Stephen Maranian, the LRPF team lead, told Defense News in a March 19 interview. \u201cTo that effort, we are looking at how do we increase our range, how do we increase our lethality and how do we increase our volume of fires, not just in the missile area, but at echelon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CFT has three specifically outlined efforts to address the modernization needs for LRPF:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Long-range in the close fight<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army is looking at how it will evolve its current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2017\/12\/21\/us-army-awards-bae-contract-to-build-full-rate-production-howitzers\/\" title=\"\" class=\"selected-link\" target=\"_blank\" data-original-title=\"\" aria-describedby=\"popover401956\" style=\"\">M109A7 self-propelled howitzer \u2014 or the Paladin Integrated Management<\/a> \u2014 into extended-range cannon artillery, Maranian said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CFT is looking at \u201chow do we take that chassis that is hopefully going to be at full-rate production in the next couple of months and get ourselves to a better propellant, a better projectile and a longer barrel \u2014 extending from a 39-caliber to a 58-caliber \u2014 to be able to not only get on the current battlefield to the 70 kilometer range, but also provide the basis from which either a hypervelocity or a ramjet technology round could get us to very long ranges with cannon artillery,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The plan is to spiral in capabilities: \u201cWe are not going to wait and try to create the next Crusader Howitzer,\u201d Maranian said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, the Army will build capability for extended-range cannon artillery in a \u201cvery methodical manner that accelerates those things that are ready for acceleration,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFirst out of the barrel, pun intended,\u201d Maranian said, \u201cis going to be the &#8230; XM1113. 1113 is the new rocket-assisted projectile.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That projectile could end up in soldiers\u2019 hands in approximately two to two-and-half years, according to Maranian. It is being demonstrated right now through experiments at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, which took place last month and is continuing into March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army expects the projectile to reach out to 40 kilometers when fired from the current cannon tube, delivering a 33 percent increase in range capability from previous rockets, according to Maranian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then the service will extend the cannon tube from a 39-caliber to a 58-caliber, which will provide a number of benefits, Maranian said, including a new breach and new mounts within the turret of the cannon, and will provide \u201cthe ability to have a much greater explosive chain to be able to achieve the velocity out of the tube that hypersonics would require.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lastly, the Army will work on an autoloader, which will increase the cannon\u2019s volume of fire. \u201cIf we can get six to 10 rounds out of a tube for a minute, sustained, as opposed to four rounds in the first minute and one sustained after that with a human crew loading all the ammunition, we are going to dramatically increase our effects on target to be able to have more impact at the same time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>The program formerly known as LRPF<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army\u2019s CFT will also assist the program of record already underway to replace the Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS, with a longer-range missile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And to avoid confusion with the large amount of additional advanced technology efforts going on in the realm of LRPF, the Army has renamed the LRPF program to replace ATACMS to the Precision Strike Missile program, according to Maranian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the Army chief of staff is talking about LRPF, for instance, he\u2019s referring to \u201creally strategic ranges,\u201d not the ATACMS replacement, he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ATACMS program germinated in 2007, and the Army has been doing service life extension to keep the weapon in the fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The service awarded contracts in the spring of 2017 to Raytheon and Lockheed Martin for a three-year period of performance to design and build missile prototypes in the technology-maturation and risk-reduction phase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And while industry was hoping to find ways to speed up the program from a fielding timeline of 2027, a year ago, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2017\/06\/09\/army-pushes-long-range-precision-fires-development-out-by-a-year\/\" title=\"\" class=\"selected-link\" target=\"_blank\">Army had even pushed back its plans to enter the technology-maturation and risk-reduction phase of the program by a year<\/a>, according to fiscal 2018 budget documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the Army has found a way to dramatically accelerate the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere has been, within the program manager, a plan to accelerate from 2027 to an initial capability in the force by late 2022, early 2023 time frame,\u201d Maranian said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army plans to demonstrate Raytheon\u2019s and Lockheed\u2019s prototypes in 2019, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CFT is looking at how the Army might spiral in future capability, currently being developed within science and technology portfolios, once the initial Precision Strike Missile is built, Maranian added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe types of technologies we are looking at are those that can hone in on signals to be able to attack [the enemy\u2019s] integrated air defense assets, the ability to hit moved or moving targets across multiple domains, so both land and maritime targets that are moving, and the ability to deliver loitering [intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance] to very deep ranges on the battlefield out to 500 kilometers,\u201d Maranian detailed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army also plans to use its science and technology efforts \u2014 developed to move the Precision Strike Missile forward <span class=\"js-paste-start-VMQOPKAOERGH3GC7UWEWYDEK2E\">\u2014<span class=\"js-paste-end-VMQOPKAOERGH3GC7UWEWYDEK2E\"> for other efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m also interested in how are we cutting technology into our future rockets that are currently in the 85-kilometer range and getting that almost doubled,\u201d Maranian said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Getting to strategic ranges<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The third and final line of effort for the LRPF CFT is one that will bring capability of long-range strike to hit targets at \u201cstrategic ranges,\u201d according to Maranian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The one-star defined that as giving either cannons or trajectory missiles that are compliant with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty the ability to have both offensive and defensive impact in any number of different areas of the world \u201cwhere we could find ourselves facing an adversary who has very sophisticated integrated air defense, where we need to be able to break windows of opportunity into that IAD system by delivering long-range fires and enabling joint fires to exploit that window,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the defensive side, that could give the Army the ability to position a capability on an island in the Pacific, for instance, creating \u201can anti-access, area-denial capability all of our own to make potential adversaries think twice and be deterred before making a decision of whether cost is worth the benefit of being provocative,\u201d Maranian said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the technologies being examined to achieve such capability are hypersonics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHypersonic technology is absolutely something that we need to look at,\u201d he said. But he added that there are a number things that can be done to give certain projectiles hypersonic-like capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHypersonics is really a speed band of how fast we are getting that projectile moving,\u201d Maranian said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another way to get after fast speeds and longer ranges is through ramjet technology. When a projectile leaves the cannon and is flying through the air, the air is fed into the projectile itself and ignites an internal propellant, which causes further acceleration, according to Maranian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pentagon\u2019s Strategic Capabilities Office, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and Space and Missile Defense Command, outside of the Army, are looking at a number of classified programs, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The SCO is particularly looking at the 58-caliber cannon tube because it is a base requirement for hypersonics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CFT is also taking a look at rail gun technology as well as directed energy, Maranian noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army sees the possibility of hypersonics and ramjet projectiles being demonstrated in the next couple of years \u201cfor certain,\u201d he said, adding that demonstrations for both could 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